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When the curtain doesn’t open: strange nights without theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a strange feeling. I’ve spent most of my adult life encouraging people to go to live theatre. Exhorting people to share the excitement, the fun, the surprise, the laughter and the tears, the shared gasp, … Continue reading
In a lather at Big Little Lake: the 27th annual Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Funny how a charming resort village like Big Little Lake, where the well-toned meet the well-heeled over white wine spritzers, can turn suddenly … well, sinister. Murder has a way of doing that. It populates the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, improvised soap opera, Varscona Theatre
No week to stay home: festivals, musicals, plays, improv … E-town stages are full of possibilities
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is no week to stay home, my theatre-loving friends. For one thing, the summer festival season really begins: the 38th annual Kids’ Fest Tuesday, Nextfest Thursday. The 28th Die-Nasty season, Lord of Thrones, reaches its … Continue reading
I sing of Pretenderos, land of plot complications. The return of Die-Nasty to a lawless land
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Trolls? You want trolls? How about a dragon? “I’ll make it happen,” says a portentous rumbling voice from the dark. “This is a world with No Rules.” Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Welcome to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Lord of Thrones, Varscona Theatre
In the land of Pretenderos, a plot of epic proportions: Die-Nasty returns with a Lord of Thrones season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Epic battles, dynastic conflicts and alliances, murderous intrigues, lethal challenges, fierce creatures (in striking character roles), aspirational heroes, ancient grievances, copious references to The Throne, a plot that no one person can fully understand…. Yes, smells … Continue reading
Gertrude and Alice go sitcom, at the Grindstone
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Gertrude and Alice: They’re the famously eccentric American couple who held court as paid-up members of the glittering Parisian avant-garde of the ‘20s. And now, once a month, you’ll find Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, … Continue reading
Sudsing up for an improv marathon: a family reunion at Die-Nasty’s 26th annual Soap-A-Thon
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Festive, but ominous. That’s the buzz today: You, my friends, are going to a family reunion this weekend. Starting tonight at 7 p.m. the far-flung members of the Bun-Bun family, owners and operators of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Soap-A-Thon, Varscona Theatre
Monday nite special: seductive looks, upward mobility in CAL-gry, as Die-Nasty soaps return
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Welcome to the archive of lingering glances and lip-quivering gazes: troubled, dreamy, steamy, wistful, reflective, yearning, sultry, moody, sultry-moody crossover. Yes, the new season of Die-Nasty — “Die-Nasty does Dynasty,” makes Edmonton’s award-winning live improvised weekly … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Dynasty, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, improvised soap opera, soap opera, Varscona Theatre
Oil money, glamour, seduction, betrayal … the new season of Die-Nasty starts Monday
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s 1983. And world-class cities don’t come any world-classier than the one down the road. Yes, it’s in the gleaming cloud-capp’d towers of Calgary, that fabled Shangri-La of wealth and power and world classiness, oiled by, … Continue reading
The 25th anniversary edition of the Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon is sudsing up
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Welcome to Dystopia! The 25th annual edition of Edmonton’s venerable improv comedy tradition, the Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon, is at hand. Starting this very evening, 7 p.m. at the Varscona Theatre, the forces of the improv elite — the … Continue reading
